The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-09
FACTS ABOUT TIE GAR.
INCIDENTS IN Ills STOEITN LIFE NOT
GENERALLY KNOWN.

GENERALLY KNOWN.
How His Liking for France Di>pica>ed HIS
Fathcr--EIc F;t,or> the strongest Kind "i
Goyeramcnt--HiS Wife The IDOL of His
Homc--A Devoted Husband.
(From the New York Nal and Express
While the private and public life OF
every other European monarch has fre-
quently given the journalists pen occa-
sion to cover q ream Of paper, more or
less, Alexander Alezandrowitch OF Rus
sia, has kept the modern hicrophants, to
whom every secret IS known and who
are initiated into the mystery OF life,
pretty well at bay. What has crept into
print about him, off and on, has
uniformly been marred by inaccuracies.
This is easily explained. The present
Gar is not readily approached, and since
his advent to the throne especially has
he hedged about SC thoroughly that
even the intrepid 9atnerer OF news has
often lost scent before reaching him.
Alexander III. saw the frosty sun Of
the Neva first March 10 February 2G by
the Russian calendar, 1915, as the sec
ond son Of Alexander H., and was edu.
Gated with his elder brother, the heir
presumptive, Nicolas, by two years his
senior. The education Of these two
princes was put into the hands Of Count
S. Strogonow, but their real '*gouver-
neur' was Priyy-Coumcilor Titow, re-
called for the purpose from his post as
Russian ambassador at the court Of
Stuttgart. In Titow's place State
Councillor Won Grimm was appointed in
1858, when Alexander was l. years Of
age. From that time on the boy drank
daily deep from the fount Of German
learning, as nearly all his tutors were
professors of that nationality. Grimm,
however, in spite Of his German name,
was an arch-Russian by heart, and the
early influence of Titow, a Muscovite of
the old school to the finger tips, had
sunk into the youthful princes soul.
Grimm, twenty years before, had guided
the education of the Prince Constantine
Nicolaiewitch. The military training
was intrusted to an adjutant general re-
siding in the winter palace, the religious
instruction to learned old pope, and
State Secretary Baron Modest hortf,
author of several books on Russian his
tory, taught the high born twain all Of
Russian statecraft, history and law they
were desirous to learn.
April q, 1865, the death OF the
czarowitz interviewed at Nice, and Alex
ander, then just attaining his majority,
was solemnly declared the heir to the
throne. In the following year, Novem-
Der 0, 1866, he welded with much pomp
the Danish lady who had been his late
brothers fancee, Princess Dagmar,
King Christian X. 5 daughter. Baptized
in the Greek orthodox faith, she received
the names Marie Feodorowna in eX-
change for her former ones-Marie
Sophie Frederika Dagmar. This prin-
cess, as amiable and accomplished as she
is beautiful, was born November 2Gth,
1917, and was consequently her spouse S
Junior by two years and eight months.
The young consort OF the Russian heir
came from court where the loss Of two
beautiful provinces, Just swallowed up
by Prussia, was mourned with tears OF
impotent wrath, and where pious vii
liam by the Spree had been daily
anathematized. What wonder, then,
that the beautiful bride made her young
husband, then in the flush Of enthusiasm
so common to heir presumptives,
sharer in her mortal antipathy to the
Hohenzollern dynasty?
The palpable effect of these uxorioas
lessons was not long In coming. The
prince within few months was the ac-
knowledged head CT the anti-GcrmaR
party at the court, at that time and up to
the hour OF Alexander II. S death divided
into the old Russian and the new Rus
sian or German parties. In Berlin they
were well informed about this, and Bis
marck, together with his master, in
dulged in dire forebodings as to what
would happen when Alexander IL. should
close his eyes. The war OF 1901 came
and the flames burst out afresh with re-
newed vigor. The Car and his immedi-
ate encourage were in full sympathy with
Germany at that time, and especial pains
were taken to emphasize this state Of
feeling. The younger Alexander, on the
other hand, had well-organized follow
ing Of his own, whose sympathies were
strongly in another groove. The IN
evitable result was that these sympathies
and antipathies frequently clashed and
that snubs and the ''cut direct" were
dealt out very literally and evenly dis
tributed during the whole duration OF
the Franco German conflict and forsome
time after to the representatives Of Ger
many as well as France. Personal en-
counters even aud duels ensued and
Alexander II. had rather a busy time Of
it trying to allay the outraged feelings
Of this ambassador and of the attache or
secretary.
Occasionally, however, he, too, felt
provoked, and on one notable occasion
the Emperor was put into perfect rage
by his sons Prussophobous pranks. 1t
was on the occasion Of 4 court ball. This
happened to be given the night when
the telegraphic news Of another disaster
to French arms had just reached st.
Petersburg. The Emperor chad been
speaking Of this to several OF his init
mates early in the evening and III terms
of admiration at the wonderful achieve
ments of German valor Soon after he
had entered the grand ballroom in The
winter palace, Prince Alexander came IN
likewise, almost Immediately followed
by lis circle Of friends The prince, as
well as those behind Linn, had pinned
small favors to the lapels OF their swal-